“Prince of Pot” Marc Emery addresses the controversy swirling around his “jailhouse blog” remarks directed at Justice Minister Irwin Cotler*;
In one diary entry, I refer to Irwin Cotler as a Nazi Jew or Jewish Nazi. This has had some people very distracted. I want to explain these remarks and the circumstances under which these diaries are written.
When you are in jail for behaving peacefully and honestly, as I always have, it’s very legitimate and rather predictable to resent the authority that has put you there. Jail is no place for peaceful, honest citizens who behaviour has harmed or threatened no one. Who is the Attorney-General of Canada? Irwin Cotler. He is the chief political officer of the prohibition, of the courts, and he is directly responsible for any Canadian who is incarcerated under his watch as Justice Minister.
So Irwin Cotler has done this to me, make no mistake.
So at one point in my jailhouse ruminations, I use the term Nazi Jew and Jewish Nazi. Let me explain what I meant.
A Nazi is a person who inflicts pain, punishment, incarceration or death on any human who is behaving peacefully & honestly. However, a thug on the street who beats you and robs you, is not a Nazi because another precondition is that a person who inflicts pain, punishment, incarceration or death must believe in an ideology that gives moral permission to behave that way.
The Nazis not only inflicted pain, punishment, incarceration or death, they believed in an ideology that specified the use of pain, punishment, incarceration or death to achieve their desired social control goals.
Anyone who inflicts pain, punishment, incarceration or death for peaceful & honest behaviour, and believes idelogically it is permissable to do so, this is Nazism, no matter what label this person puts on their own behaviour.
Mr. Cotler is Jewish. As I said earlier, I have higher expectations from people who shared a background of persecution. Mr. Cotler knows extremely well the perniciousness of governments in meting out punishments for peaceful & honest behaviour. He understands history.
Yet his ideological belief in inflicting pain, punishment, incarceration or death for the good of the state is identical intellectually to the Nazi philosophy, and a betrayal of his persecuted roots. Now he is the chief political officer in charge of a massive pogrom against the cannabis people, and that is why I was enslaved in a jail for 62 days. There can be no doubt, that when I was in jail, Mr. Cotler’s authority of me, and his sanction of my imprisonment, and his ideological belief as expressed by his actions, that inflicting pain, punishment, incarceration or death, Mr. Cotler is living & breathing his duties with a profound philosophy of Nazism permeating everything.
Well, I’m glad he cleared that up.
This Attorney-General wants to send me to jail for the rest of my life. And I have every confidence that if I am put in a US jail, no one in Canada will ever see me alive again. The DEA/USA is not going to make it possible that I’ll ever get out to rouse the world’s conscience. I am a permanent enemy of these Nazified forces that are surging through North America these very anxious days for all of us in the cannabis culture.
So if you see remarks about these diary blogs in any newspaper story, please set them straight as to what our struggle is about. And our struggle is one of worldwide peace, love & understanding in an anxious age of state barbarism. The menacing forces of government are waging this vicious war against our beloved people. Make no mistake, its a war. Thats how the DEA sees it all. A War.
When they capture the leader of the enemy, what do you think they do to him?
I’ve not seen many Marijuana Party members in “action” so it’s perhaps unfair to draw conclusions from a small sampling. Still , there seems to be a pattern of self-obsessiveness and paranoia that pops up frequently enough among declared party members that one wonders – does heavy pot use have this effect on personality? Or are those with personality disorders simply drawn to organizations of this type?
And then, there’s the question of logic impairment and its impact on decision making. Quite apart from one’s views on marijuana legalization (I’m more or less ambivalent) – you would think that someone who attaches himself to a cause that could result in lengthy imprisonment would pick something a little more profound than the right to inhale fumes from a burning twig.
For all you people who want to justify this travesty by saying “he deserves it , he broke the law,” answer me this. Should Rosa Parks have moved to the back of the bus because that was the law? Sjould the slaves have stayed in the south because slavery was legal? I have my doubts that any one of you chickenshit prohibitionists will answer my questions because the answer either goes against your logic in Marc Emery’s case or would betray your true racist personalities.
Kate,
And quite apart from what one thinks of the wisdom of such a pursuit or the wisdom of some of he things he says or the character of some of his defenders – the bottom line is that it’s pretty monstrous that he faces lengthy imprisonment for facilitating the inhalation of “fumes from a burning twig”.